Friday, January 07, 2011

New HTML5 & CSS3 Textbook

Looking ahead to an early March, 2011 publishing date for my new textbook, Basics of Web Design: HTML5 & CSS3! The textbook takes a unique approach to prepare students to design web pages that work today in addition to being ready to take advantage of new HTML5 coding techniques of the future.

Use HTML5 Today!

To meet this challenging goal, Basics of Web Design: HTML5 & CSS3 introduces both XHTML syntax and HTML5 syntax, presents coding web pages in HTML5 with backwards-compatible techniques that work in current browsers, and also provides practice with HTML5's new features that will only work in the latest versions of browsers.

2 comments:

I will have to stick with the old book instead of moving to this one. That's a shame, because I did want to go to html5. The emphasis in this book is on "design", and I need the more "development" oriented slant. My students MUST come out of class knowing how to construct an IF statement, a loop, how to edit fields with comparison operators and do simple calculations. Add back that chapter on javascript and I'll make the move!

I'm working on a new HTML5/CSS3 edition of the Web Development & Design Foundations book (http://webdevfoundations.net) that will be available a year from now in Spring 2012. The way things are going, that will be here before we know it.

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Dr. Terry Ann Morris, the author of best-selling web development textbooks published under the name of Terry Felke-Morris, has worked with the Web since 1996. She holds Professor Emerita status at Harper College after building the web development program from the ground up and teaching web development, computer information systems, and instructional technology courses.

The Basics of Web Design: HTML5 & CSS3 textbook takes an innovative approach to prepare students to design web pages. The design of the book is intended to appeal to today's busy, multi-tasking, visual learners with each topic introduced in two pages with full color printing.

The Web Development & Design Foundations with HTML5 textbook integrates HTML and CSS topics such as configuring text, color, and page layout with an enhanced focus on the topics of accessibility, usability, and web standards. This traditional textbook offers multiple case studies with each chapter and helps to prepare students to design web pages that take advantage of new HTML5 coding techniques.